# Senior Thermal Engineer

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Huntsville, Alabama
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $126,000-$167,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Thermal Engineer to join their Rocket Motor Systems group. The successful candidate will conduct detailed thermal analysis of solid rocket motor components.

Responsibilities:

- Perform detailed thermal analysis of solid rocket motor components.

- Size internal insulation, external thermal protection systems, and structural insulators.

- Validate models with test data; develop predictive ablation and erosion models.

- Define sub-scale tests for characterizing material properties of insulators and ablators.

- Evaluate and recommend ablative materials and thermal protection system solutions for applications in solid rocket motors.

- Create reports and presentations documenting analysis and other supporting work.

- Present to peers and customers in design reviews.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or similar.

- 8+ years of relevant professional experience.

- Working knowledge of fundamental heat transfer, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics first principles.

- Prior experience operating CAD software and/or FEA software.

- Strong communication skills.

- Ability to travel to other Anduril sites, customer sites, or supplier sites as business demand dictates.

- Ability to obtain and hold a U.S. Secret Security Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Advanced degree (master's or doctorate) in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or similar with a focus on ablation modeling, computational combustion, or reacting flows.

- Experience with Abaqus FEA software.

- Expertise in engineering tool development in Microsoft Excel, MATLAB, and/or Python.

- Expertise with thermochemical ablation and material response analysis, with an emphasis on ablation in solid rocket motors and/or reentry systems.

- Expertise with ablation modeling tools, such as Hero, CHAR, PATO or similar, and surface chemistry tools, such as ACE or Mutation++.

Benefits:

- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.

- Income protection: life and disability insurance.

- Generous time off: highly competitive PTO plans.

- Family planning and parenting support.

- Mental health resources.

- Professional development: annual reimbursement.

- Commuter benefits.

- Relocation assistance.

- Retirement savings plan.

## Skills

### Required
- thermal analysis
- heat transfer
- thermodynamics
- fluid mechanics
- CAD software
- FEA software
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- Abaqus FEA software
- engineering tool development
- Microsoft Excel
- MATLAB
- Python
- ablation modeling
- computational combustion
- reacting flows
- thermochemical ablation
- material response analysis

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